NDAA protest hits Twitter during debate

While the presidential candidates stayed silent on the act, Anonymous helped trend #stopNDAA

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October 23, 2012 3:56PM (UTC)

Among the trending Twitter hashtags during Monday night's debate, #StopNDAA rose to prominence alongside #HorsesAndBayonets. The trend had little to do with Barack Obama and Mitt Romney's foreign policy debate, during which the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its troubling indefinite detention provision got no mention. With the awareness that neither candidate would touch upon it, online activists took it upon themselves to push the issue on Twitter.

The campaigning group Stop NDAA originally proposed the tweet jacking protest via their site, noting "both parties are colluding in denying you your First and Fifth amendment rights under the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, and both candidates refuse to discuss this bipartisan assault on civil liberties."